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Thunderf00t at the 12 million dollar HYPERLOOP! (Patreon)

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2017-09-19 23:04:53

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The hype on the hyperloop drives me crazy. No one seems interested in actually looking at what they have, or what they might be able to do, but rather what they promise.... 700 mph.... LA to SF in 30 mins! 1/10th the cost of high speed rail!!

The fact that this is all hopelessly optimistic doesnt seem to bother anyone. The fact that these engineering geniuses paid over 10 million dollars on a steel tube, but forgot that it would get rusty when wet doesnt seem bother anyone.... the fact that the idea is nothing new... its just a new name for an old idea doesnt seem to bother anyone 'LA TO SF IN 30 MINS!!!!!'

Meanwhile when you actually get there and take a look at what they have, none of it even remotely starts to address any of the technical challenges of actually building a functioning hyperloop, let alone making it commercially viable!!

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Thunderf00t at the 12 million dollar HYPERLOOP!

If your gonna shell out 12 million dollars for a tube..... check whether it will RUST first! The hyperloop is less than a year old, and its rusting everywhere on the outside. On the inside its completely covered with rust. There arent many ways you can actually screw up a vacuum tube, but not only is the inside of the hyperloop completely rusted up, they also managed to paint over the o-rings in the viewing port. I actually also had a chat with one of the hyperloop engineers. To be fair he only worked on the pusher, but he had never really thought about the viability of the project as a whole. He was a nice guy and let me have quite a poke around on the pusher and tube. Nonetheless he hadnt even considered the expansion issue. For me when I got the thermal camera inside the tube... I took one look and 'QED' when I saw the temperature differential between the top and bottom of the tube. He just had a blank expression of 'so what?' What they did get right is the thickness of the tube. The walls are about 2-3cm thick (~1inch). It would make a convincing gun barrel, and feels like it would contain anything that went wrong in the tube. The exception in the end of the tube. There Im not so sure. Many thanks to all those who supported this video through patreon. https://www.patreon.com/Thunderf00t